The Iraq War And International Law

Author : Philip Shiner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847314589
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iraq War and International Law written by Philip Shiner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decision by the US and UK governments to use military force against Iraq in 2003 and the subsequent occupation and administration of that State, has brought into sharp focus fundamental fault lines in international law. The decision to invade, the conduct of the war and occupation and the mechanisms used to administer the country all challenge the international legal community placing it at a crossroads. When can the use of force be justified? What are the limits of military operations? What strength does international criminal law possess in the face of such interventions? How effective is the international regime of human rights in these circumstances? What role does domestic law have to play? How the law now responds and develops in the light of these matters will be of fundamental global importance for the 21st century and an issue of considerable political and legal concern. This book explores this legal territory by examining a number of issues fundamental to the future direction of international law in the War's aftermath. Consideration is also given to the impact on UK law. Both practical and academic perspectives are taken in order to scrutinise key questions and consider the possible trajectories that international law might now follow.

Author : Philip Shiner
Publisher : Hart Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781841136691
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iraq War and International Law written by Philip Shiner and published by Hart Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decision by the US and UK governments to use military force against Iraq in 2003 and the subsequent occupation and administration of that State, has brought into sharp focus fundamental fault lines in international law. The decision to invade, the conduct of the war and occupation and the mechanisms used to administer the country all challenge the international legal community placing it at a crossroads. When can the use of force be justified? What are the limits of military operations? What strength does international criminal law possess in the face of such interventions? How effective is the international regime of human rights in these circumstances? What role does domestic law have to play? How the law now responds and develops in the light of these matters will be of fundamental global importance for the 21st century and an issue of considerable political and legal concern. This book explores this legal territory by examining a number of issues fundamental to the future direction of international law in the War's aftermath. Consideration is also given to the impact on UK law. Both practical and academic perspectives are taken in order to scrutinise key questions and consider the possible trajectories that international law might now follow.

Author : Iger F. Dekker
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780792313342
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gulf War of 1980-1988 written by Iger F. Dekker and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with a number of the most important international legal aspects of the Gulf War of 1980-1988. To date, remarkably little attention has been paid to this war from the international legal perspective. However, the need to do so seems obvious. Many more States than the two belligerents have directly or indirectly become involved as a result, in particular, of the extensive activities of the belligerent parties which were detrimental to the shipping of non-participating States. Furthermore, even if the hostilities have finally come to an end, the international community will still have to cope with the international legal aftermath for a prolonged period of time. After all, the Gulf War of 1980-1988 has placed certain matters, which for a long time seemed to have lost their place of prominence, at the centre of interest for international lawyers, notably the law of neutrality and some areas of the law of international armed conflict, particularly the rules regarding the conduct of war.

Author : Bernhard Vogel
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9788187358213
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Iraq War written by Bernhard Vogel and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Iraq War: The Future of the UN and International Law opens up a powerful and important debate on the future of world order. The military occupation of Iraq by the United States and their allies in Spring 2003 has confronted the United Nations with new and fundamental questions concerning its authority, its prestige, its working methods, its efficiency even the justification of its existence in the future. Besides the United Nations, the book concerns the general international law as such, especially the rules regarding the maintenance of peace and the prohibition of the use of force, which are also the central provisions of the United Nations Charter and the fundamental norms of customary international law. Contemporary general international law is inextricably linked to the fate of the United Nations. The purpose of this volume is to reappraise the findings on the current situation and to give a differentiated picture of the international debate on the future world order, and its direction.

Author : Michael Byers
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 155584846X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Law written by Michael Byers and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Professor Byers’s book goes to the heart of some of the most bitterly contested recent controversies about the International Rule of Law.” —Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University International law governing the use of military force has been the subject of intense public debate. Under what conditions is it appropriate, or necessary, for a country to use force when diplomacy has failed? Michael Byers, a widely known world expert on international law, weighs these issues in War Law. Byers examines the history of armed conflict and international law through a series of case studies of past conflicts, ranging from the 1837 Caroline Incident to the abuse of detainees by US forces at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Byers explores the legal controversies that surrounded the 1999 and 2001 interventions in Kosovo and Afghanistan and the 2003 war in Iraq; the development of international humanitarian law from the 1859 Battle of Solferino to the present; and the role of war crimes tribunals and the International Criminal Court. He also considers the unique influence of the United States in the evolution of this extremely controversial area of international law. War Law is neither a textbook nor a treatise, but a fascinating account of a highly controversial topic that is necessary reading for fans of military history and general readers alike. “Should be read, and pondered, by those who are seriously concerned with the legacy we will leave to future generations.” —Noam Chomsky

Author : Marc Weller
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199595305
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iraq and the Use of Force in International Law written by Marc Weller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One million people in the UK alone demonstrated against the 2003 invasion of Iraq. A crucial element of the opposition to the war was the lack of a clear legal basis. This is the first book to analyze the lawfulness of the use of force against Iraq on the basis of formerly classified material made public by the official UK inquiry into the war.

Author : Ayça Çubukçu
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812295374
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For the Love of Humanity written by Ayça Çubukçu and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 15, 2003, millions of people around the world demonstrated against the war that the United States, the United Kingdom, and their allies were planning to wage in Iraq. Despite this being the largest protest in the history of humankind, the war on Iraq began the next month. That year, the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) emerged from the global antiwar movement that had mobilized against the invasion and subsequent occupation. Like the earlier tribunal on Vietnam convened by Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre, the WTI sought to document—and provide grounds for adjudicating—war crimes committed by the United States, the United Kingdom, and their allied forces during the Iraq war. For the Love of Humanity builds on two years of transnational fieldwork within the decentralized network of antiwar activists who constituted the WTI in some twenty cities around the world. Ayça Çubukçu illuminates the tribunal up close, both as an ethnographer and a sympathetic participant. In the process, she situates debates among WTI activists—a group encompassing scholars, lawyers, students, translators, writers, teachers, and more—alongside key jurists, theorists, and critics of global democracy. WTI activists confronted many dilemmas as they conducted their political arguments and actions, often facing interpretations of human rights and international law that, unlike their own, were not grounded in anti-imperialism. Çubukçu approaches this conflict by broadening her lens, incorporating insights into how Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the Iraqi High Tribunal grappled with the realities of Iraq's occupation. Through critical analysis of the global debate surrounding one of the early twenty-first century's most significant world events, For the Love of Humanity addresses the challenges of forging global solidarity against imperialism and makes a case for reevaluating the relationships between law and violence, empire and human rights, and cosmopolitan authority and political autonomy.

Author : Richard Falk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135917361
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Costs of War written by Richard Falk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Costs of War, Richard Falk brings together some of his recent essays, published and unpublished, examining the impact that the Iraq War has had and will have on international law, human rights, and democracy. A new introduction provides an overview as well as a sense of the current context and reflects on the internal prospects for Iraq and on the logic of an early US military and political withdrawal. Having been revised and updated to take account of the march of events, the essays are organized into the following sections: Part 1 addresses the effects of the American invasion and occupation of Iraq on the current dimensions of world order Part 2 provides a normative inquiry into the larger intentions and consequences of the Iraq War Part 3 considers the more fundamental implications of the Iraq War, especially on our understanding of war as an instrument for the solution of conflict. Falk demonstrates the dysfunctionality of war in relation to either anti-terrorism or the pursuit of a global security system based on military dominance; the historical potential of a realistic Gandhiism as a positive alternative in the setting of global policy in the twenty-first century. The Costs of War will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, media studies, and politics and international relations in general.

Author : Alexander Eriksröd
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656862915
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Doubtful Contribution. Review of Anthony Carty: “The Iraq Invasion as a Recent United Kingdom ‘Contribution’ to International Law” written by Alexander Eriksröd and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature Review from the year 2014 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: 17/20, Sciences Po Paris, Dijon, Nancy, Poitier, Menton, Havre, course: The Basics of International Law and issues of International Law and War, language: English, abstract: This short abstract gives an overview of Anthony Carty's "The Iraq Invasion as a recent UK 'Contribution' to International Law", its main ideas and historical and political context such as of how Britain (together with its allies) framed Saddam Hussein as a threat to international peace in order to build up support for its intervention. "The Iraq Invasion as a Recent United Kingdom 'Contribution" to International Law" was published in the European Journal of International Law Vol. 16 no. 1 (2005).

Author : Naval War College
Publisher : Military Bookshop
ISBN 13 : 9781782662389
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War in Iraq written by Naval War College and published by Military Bookshop. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Law Studies, Volume 86. Raul A. "Pete" Pedrozo, editor. Provides legal examination of the armed conflict in Iraq during the secondd Gulf War that began in 2003. Discusses legal issues associated with the initial decision to use armed force, the manner in which force was employed, the legal framework and evolution of military activities from invasion to occupation, detention and counterinsurgency operations, as well as policy and legal issues associated with the establishment of the rule of law and return of governance to the people of Iraq.